George ‘Geohot’ Hotz (the hacker sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PS3) has denied any involvement with the current PSN security crisis.
“To anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I'm not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door.” Hotz wrote in a post on his personal blog. “Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone elses server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony.”
He also said that in his opinion, the fault for the security breach lay with Sony’s executives rather than its engineers.
“Let's not fault the Sony engineers for this, the same way I do not fault the engineers who designed the BMG rootkit. The fault lies with the executives who declared a war on hackers, laughed at the idea of people penetrating the fortress that once was Sony, whined incessantly about piracy, and kept hiring more lawyers when they really needed to hire good security experts. Alienating the hacker community is not a good idea.”
Sony targetted Hotz with legal action following his publication of the PS3 root keys. Although the the case was ultimately settled out of court, hacker supergroup Anonymous subsequently targetted PSN in a widely-publicised revenge attack. Anonymous denies involvement with the current PSN crisis.
“Sony needs to accept that they no longer own and control the PS3 when they sell it to you. Notice it's only PSN that gave away all your personal data, not Xbox Live when the 360 was hacked, not iTunes when the iPhone was jailbroken, and not GMail when Android was rooted. Because other companies aren't crazy.”
Finally, Hotz sent a message to those responsible for the breach.
“To the perpetrator, two things. You are clearly talented and will have plenty of money(or a jail sentence and bankruptcy) coming to you in the future. Don't be a d**k and sell people's information. And I'd love to see a write up on how it all went down...lord knows we'll never get that from Sony, noobs probably had the password set to '4' or something. I mean, at least it was randomly generated.”